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PDEs you should know

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Re: PDEs you should know

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PDEs are really useful if you are in the rare domains where they are useful. But most PDEs don't have even have closed form solutions for non-trivial boundary conditions. So unless you are a physicist or something adjacent, no, no you really don't need to know these.

Hard to say what's the intended audience for the page though. Could be a message aimed at physics undergrads or something. If so, then indeed, you should know these.

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